Tractor guide



June 26, 1928.

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EARL W. SKELTON AND GLENN R. KNOTWELL, F WAUNETA, NEBRASKA.

TRACTOR GUIDE.

Application filed July 12, 1927'. Serial No. 205,202.

1 Our invention relates to tractor steering ing bar 5, aids in supporting the Weight of devices of that class in which steering disks the said bar and thereby prevents the sagor runners are arranged to travel in a preging of the steering head under the weight viously formed furrow in advance ofthe of the arms 8 and the disks or runners cara tractor and are connected with the usual ried by said arms.

steering gear of the tractor so that as the Mounted upon the tractor in rear of the machine travels over a field it will be caused mast 3 in any convenient manner, as by to follow a path parallel with the furrow being secured uponthe side of the fuel tank, in which the disks or runners are located. is aguide pulley 12 and a chain or cable 13 w lihe object of the present invention is to is secured at its forward end to the arms 8 provide simple means which may be easily or to the frame upon which the runners mounted upon the side of the tractor and or disks are directly mounted, the said chain whereby the power of the tractor may be or cable passing over the guide pulleys 4 utilized to lift the steering runners or disks and 12 and being secured at its rear end to 15 from the furrow in which theymay have a drum or winding shaft 14 which is fixed been operating to be relocated in a furrow to the shaft or axle of a gear wheel 15,215 which has justbeen formed so as to guide shown, the said shaft or axle beingsupthe tractor on its return trip or may be ported in any convenient manner upon the supported in an elevated position when the side of the engine block or crank casing 20 machine is to be driven from field to field above and in advance of the power take-0E or to a place ofvstorage. The invent-ion is pulley 2, as shown most clearly in Fig. 1. illustrated in the accompanying drawings Below the gear 15 and in advance of the and consists in certain novel features which power take-off pulley 2, a supporting block MillJa el ereinafterrfirstfullv described and or frame 16 is secured upon the side of the 51! t Mn: [11 Lune-.- at w nticidiatiyl 3 ':l (details ['1 1 1i n1 112i 1 a a mamlr 1c ma g1 adfit [fish fitter to 3 I] famnnmm 1 ama (b .QIElllH. s 5 15am. 1 51 2b :aeanigi g1 fflffllp'it it do 1a 1a :6 oeezrlnici :[djfl 1d 1 r'awinings: i darinig1 111W: al'nirifc illlsfclllilf eaiali i darirfgn g1 71? it'iggiigrecel s aiscleleliaititinl 11: airti tl :lTllilH see his .slsflt'illilEwtiihlnhmrrretes a1 friitir 1p rlllisiygz 1 1:10 :1, t f M mac-11m a'vzinigi g1 10?] 1g lI JBSBS'dl 1t] lime-r 19. 3a ia'arageg'e 1 i: 11' 1a iarhvram: a :(1 t1 12d] d1 1'1 f M) a (vet- 5 l? t itio a v ami jelila it l innate 1 g t ital: it: 1pm: to r E: 111m name it atlak-etc' 1 l1 illtilys 2.5L

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as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The pedal25 is mounted upon the transmission casing of the tractor within conveniefitre'ach of the 0 e1--' ator so that .when the runners or steering, disks are to be raised the result'can be accomplished b Pressing upon the" pedal 25 and holdinfg t ie same depressed through the desired interval. I v 7 It will loe seen l'rom the foregoing de scription, taken in connection with" the accompanying drawing, that we have provided an exceedingly simple niechanisni whereby the pe s-"OI" the tractor nay, he uti'lized to frictionjpulley'mounted in advance and in i the same vertical plane with the'power takeofi" pulley the tractor, a'b rake hlock in advance of the friction pulley, a pinion fixed r to the f ri ction; pulley and ineshing onstant ly with said gear, and aneccentrie' hearing fonthe; friction pulley whereby the pulley may be caused to engage the power take-0E pulley or the brake block.

2. In apparatus for the purpose set forth, a winding drum, 9, gear fixed to said Wiiiding' druinyiand'mounted on the side of a tractor, a shaft rnounted-helow' the gear, "a

friction pulley'on said shaft, a pinion on saidshaft meshingwith the gear eccentric bearings; for the friction pulley shaft, a brake' blo ck in advance of the pulley; a

spring acting upon the 'eccentrichearings to normally hold the frictionpulley in enga l merit with the brake block, a pedalin rear of the winding drum, and connections he g tweenthe' pedal andpthe eccentric bearings whereby the said bearings may he'shifte'd to cause the friction pulley to engagethe'hrake block'jor the power take-0E pulley of the tractor. a y

In testimony whereof we afi'x our signatures. I p

EARL W SKELTON. L st GLENNRKNOTWELL. EL. 8.] j 

